 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1796 - 442 pages
...rigorous mortifi' cations, men obtain, even in this life, the ' ftate of beatitude. 76. * A manfion with bones for its rafters and ' beams ; with nerves and tendons, for cords ; ' with mufcles and blood, for mortar; with ikin, ' for its outward covering ; filled with no fweet ' perfume,... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - Coins, Ancient - 1800 - 492 pages
...following whimfical, but ftriking, defcription of the boufe of clay tenanted by frail mortals. *' A manfion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with mufcles and blood for mortar; with Jkin for its outward covering ; filled with no perfume, but loaded... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 414 pages
...rigorous mortifica•' tions, men obtain,- even in this life, the ftateof ' beatitude. , 76. * A manfion with bones for its rafters and * beams; with nerves and tendons, for cords; * with mufcles #nd blood, for mortar; with * ikm, for its outward covering ; filled with no * fweet perfume,... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 408 pages
...rigorous mortifiea' tions, men obtain, even in this life, the ftate of ' beatitude. 76. * A manfion with bones for its rafters and ' beams ; with nerves and tendons, for cords j * with mufeles and blood, for mortar; with ' fkitl, for its outward covering ; filled with no * fweet... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...philosopher and legislator Menn, who thus forcibly but singularly describes the body of this great prince : " A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams; with...with skin for its outward -covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with feces and urine. A mansion infested by age and by sorrow, the seat of... | |
 | William Ward - Hindu mythology - 1815 - 588 pages
...accident, he will still attain heaven. — Manoo says, ' A mansion with bones for its rafters and beans; with nerves and tendons for cords; with muscles and blood for mortar; with skin for its outward rovering ; filled wilh no sweet perfume, but loaded with ftces and urine; a mansion infested by age... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - India - 1816 - 458 pages
...might be very widely extended." A mansion, with bones for its rafters and beams, with nerves for its cords, with muscles and blood for mortar, with skin for its outward covering, filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with faeces and urine : A mansion, infested with sickness and sorrow, the... | |
 | William Ward - 1817 - 424 pages
...absorption, Or the highest happiness ; if he die by accident, he will still attain heaven. — Miinoo says, ' A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with...and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for nlortar ; with skin for its outward covering ; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with faeces... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...philosopher and legislator Menu, who thus forcibly but singularly describes the body of this great prince: "A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams; with...blood for mortar; with skin for its outward covering; rilled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with feces and urine. A mansion infested by age and by sorrow,... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...nature, — a shell which the spirit was to burst before it could take wing. ' A mansion,' says Menu, ' with bones for its rafters and beams, with nerves...blood for mortar, with skin for its outward covering ; — a mansion infested by age and sorrow, the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the... | |
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